Episode 48: Psychedelic Science 2023

07/18/23 • 95 min

In this episode, CogNation goes to the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver to get in on all the excitement. We present four interviews from the conference that represent a range of ideas about the resurgent interest in psychedelics as therapeutics.

Bekely Waves
The East Institute
Balasz Szigeti
Manoj Doss

Bekely Waves
The East Institute
Balasz Szigeti
Manoj Doss

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Episode 47: Street Epistemology with Mark Solomon

Everyone has a set of beliefs. Increasingly, it seems like we wonder how so many people can hold opposite or contradictory beliefs -- puzzling if we think there's an objective reality. We have a great conversation with Mark Solomon, a clinical psychologist and the host of the Being Reasonable podcast, about Street Epistemology, a conversational method of probing why we believe what we believe.

https://www.beingreasonableshow.com/
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Special Guest: Mark Solomon.

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Episode 49: The Self: Bundle and Ego Theories

Rolf and Joe discuss two philosophical theories of the self, Bundle Theory and Ego Theory, based on a paper by Derek Parfit. They return to the topic of the teletransporter, and although Joe is happy to go through the teletransporter, Rolf is convinced it means certain death.

Parfit, D. (2016). Divided minds and the nature of persons. Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, 91-98.